Minne Reclining in a Rocking Chair

1907

Jacques Villon

Associated Names
Jacques Villon

Artist, French, 1875 - 1963

The image depicts various curved and straight lines arranged in an abstract composition. The lines create a pattern that may suggest a reclining figure, surrounded by flowing lines resembling hair or fabric. The texture of scratchy pen marks adds to the undefined background, giving an abstract quality to the image. The arrangement of lines hints at human forms but is open to interpretation.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, soft ground etching, and aquatint on old blue-gray oatmeal paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 16.9 x 24.7 cm (6 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 x 38.5 cm (11 x 15 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.67.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ginestet/Pouillon 1979, no. E186

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Daniel Bell. (Conrad Graeber Fine Art, Riderwood, MD); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1979

  • Ginestet, Colette de and Catherine Pouillon. Jacques Villon: les estampes et les illustrations: catalogue raisonne. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1979: no. 186 (proof)

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Epr. / 203; lower right in graphite: Jacques Villon / GP 188; on verso, by 18th(?) c. hand, in pen and black ink: Limoges

Wikidata ID

Q76561148

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